Wodehouse sighting in the Corner

"The estimable Terry Teachout, the world's most prolific man, offers a fascinating throwaway fact on his blog -- that P.G. Wodehouse's first Jeeves novel was serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1932. Cosmo paid $50,000. In present day bucks, that's more than $600,000. Six hundred thousand dollars. For a delightful comic novel about a butler and a moron. Today you'd have to be a porn star writing about your affair with Bill Clinton to get that kind of money for serial rights from a magazine."

Wodehouse being, of course, the very antithesis of porn. Funny to think that Cosmo is the very magazine to publish both Plum and Porn, or at least something very close to porn.